SHIP'S CAT
On a chair in the lounge of the Sydney Star a black and white cat stretched in rhythmical sleep. I admired and bent to stroke the very glossy and healthy looking coat. "That's the ship’s special cat; she lives this end-all the ratcatchers live the other end," said a steward who came through just then. "Is she Australian?" "No, not her. She’s a pure Londoner. Came to us as a kitten and now she’s going to have her first batch of kittens herself soon. She’s a nice little cat, very friendly. With seven children on board this trip the kittens will be a great event." "They'll be Australian kittens I suppose." "Not at all. They'll be New Zealand kittens. She met the father in Auckland and_ she brought him aboard-he’s coming along with us." I still wasn’t sure that they’d be New Zealand kittens and in the end we agreed that they’d be Pacific kittens.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 396, 24 January 1947, Page 13
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157SHIP'S CAT New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 396, 24 January 1947, Page 13
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